A comprehensive study of the reasons for the repetition of criminal behavior among people sentenced to prison

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistant professor and faculty member of the Department of History and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

2 PhD student in Cultural Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Branch

3 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Payame noor, Tehan, Iran. E-mail: Elham@pnu.ac.ir

4 PhD in Political Sociology, Qom Branch Azad University, noorii1781@gmail.com

10.22084/csr.2024.28521.2249

Abstract

Even though prison is a place for correction, punishment and prevention of recidivism, some convicts tend to repeat their criminal behavior due to committing crimes, which requires a comprehensive study of the reasons for such a socio-cultural issue. Based on this, the main goal of the research is to study the comprehensive reasons for the repetition of criminal behavior among people sentenced to prison. meta-analysis research method, deliberate-non-probability sampling method; From the statistical population, 36 documents from the scientific sources of Nurmagz, MagIran, Iran Doc, and the scientific database of Jihad University, 25 scientific documents as a sample size of 25 in the period from 1388 to 1403 based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected and analyzed through Cohen's d test and Fisher's f test. were placed The results show that social factors (differential cohabitation, broken family, environmental criminal opportunities, social support, social cohesion, social control); cultural factors (religiosity, risky lifestyle, cultural poverty, belonging to a subcultural society); Economic factors (feeling of relative deprivation, poverty, feeling of injustice, unemployment) and psychological factors (negative social label, deviant identity, family emotional crisis, sense of abnormality and low self-esteem) are effective in repeating the criminal behavior of people sentenced to prison and returning them to the prison environment. have been.

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